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To: thingumbob

Sometimes it goes deeper than R and D. They also oversample women. Easier to hide. The recent PPP poll showing Obummer up +5 in Ohio not only oversampled Dems +4, but also oversampled women +9.


17 posted on 09/10/2012 2:38:06 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips

—Ohio not only oversampled Dems +4, but also oversampled women +9.

Wow, that’s really some good information. I knew about the party weighting but sex?!?!?! Where would all the men have gone? /s


23 posted on 09/10/2012 2:44:49 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: MrChips
Agreed.....Seen this kind of stuff from the shills over and over again.

Like your ID --- "Goodbye Mr.Chips" ---great movie!

28 posted on 09/10/2012 2:49:41 PM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: MrChips

Not to be a nitpicker, but the oversampling of women was 54% to 46%, or 8%. The 2010 census showed women outnumbering men by about 1.6%, so the PPP oversample of women is actually 6.4%, and that should definitely skew results in Obama’s favor since he always seems to poll stronger with women (Rush’s arousal gap).

The question is whether this oversampling of women is deliberate or a side effect of discarding republican responses to reach the desired R/D mix, which are more likely to have come from men.

But, I agree, any time someone has to decide whether to keep or toss a given sample, there is the potential for mischief.


33 posted on 09/10/2012 3:00:42 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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